Re: [PATCH] Staging: bcm: fix possible memory leak inbcm_char_ioctl()

From: Kevin McKinney
Date: Mon Sep 03 2012 - 21:19:04 EST


On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 06:02:23PM +0800, Wei Yongjun wrote:
> From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> psFwInfo has been allocated in this function and should be
> freed before leaving from the error handling cases.
>
> spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem.
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c
> index cf411d1..3d02c2e 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c

Acked-by: Kevin McKinney <klmckinney1@xxxxxxxxx>
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